22. september 2016

Deiquisitor review

A review:

This is one of those albums that I’ve been really looking forward to
hear. Ever since I heard Deiquisitor’s fantastic “Hexagon Vortex” EP for
the first time and felt how strongly is their massive sound crushing
every bone in my body, I knew that this is a band that I need to keep my
eyes open at as they’re able to come up with something exceptional.
Finally the beast was unleashed in the start of 2016 and some weeks
later it arrived to my quarters with one mission: to fuckin destroy
again! And yes, it does that easily.

Man, what a great band Deiquisitor is. I am fully aware that they
probably will never become popular or trendy act, but I can assure you
that their music should please many death metal maniacs. It’s obvious
also that they don’t perform death metal that you have not heard before.
More so, it seems like this sort of obscure and ghoulish death metal
sound has been adopted by quite few better or worse acts these days. But
none of that makes “Deiquisitor” a less intriguing and captivating
album. It’s actually the opposite!

I just love that massive, utterly heavy and sepulchral, obscure sound of
Deiquisitor. This is death metal that could easily crush every bone in
your flesh and shred it into a pile of filthy carcass. It’s just
insanely heavy, totally beastly and vicious. And brutal! At the same
time the atmosphere is very dark, dismal and malicious. It can obviously
remind you Immolation and Incantation strongly, and such comparison
would do no harm to Deiquisitor. But you know, I feel like Deiquisitor
is much more than that. Their music is for example much more fast and
ravaging, they rather avoid the harmonious part of Immolation (although
it does appear rarely like in “Black Matter Vortex”) and hardly ever
step into the doomy part of Incantation. And that intensity, which
Deiquisitor managed to find is something I like the most. When combined
with some killer riffs, totally eerie atmosphere that surrounds every
sound here and with superb heavy production, the result can only be
fantastic. Some may moan about the similarity between all songs, and I
guess that I can even agree that the band may have not had enough ideas
to cover all twelve songs they offer here, so at times it gets a bit
repetitive. But for me that’s a minor fault and with the sheer intensity
and brutality “Deiquisitor” feels super awesome. This album contains
all songs from the previous CD plus a bunch of new stuff. With a bit
over 30 minutes of music, it’s enough for me to feel fully satisfied.

In the end, let me say one more thing. Deiquisitor members are also
strongly involved in Danish black metal scene, with acts like Sadomator,
Luciation, Blodfest, Wolfslair, Ogdru Jahad and so on. And it’s OK, I
like some of them. But I have to say that none of these black metal
bands (at least what I’ve heard so far) sounds even half as killer as
Deiquisitor. This band crushed everything else they’ve been ever
involved haha!